How Does Medea Treat Jason Selfish

At the start of the play Medea stands an abandoned woman, the man she loved whom she sacrificed everything for including the lives of her brother and father is leaving her for another woman. We can see Medea’s anger strikes when her greatest desire, but to see Jason suffer. Medea

In order to stop Jason from marrying Creon’s daughter, she kills her and Creon. Medea furthermore kills her children as a way to give Jason even more pain (and on some accounts, save her own children from the royal family’s vengeance). Through her murderous actions, Jason’s power is even greatly more diminished. At the end of

For Medea must fall in love with Jason and then she will use her great skill with magic to help Jason acquire the fleece. Because of Hera’s hatred towards Pelias Medea’s life is now destined for extreme agony, shame, and guilt. Her love for Jason causes her to tear away from her loving parents and dishonor her father by helping his enemy. Hera’s plan to avenge Pelias also flood Medea’s head with thoughts to keep her from straying from Hera’s plan. Unfortunately for Medea her decision to help Jason was not her own and was a careful thought out plan by Hera. Her life would never again be the same. Even though Jason promises to love her always and promises that she will be his wedded wife, he breaks this promise as soon as she become old and he is given the opportunity to marry royalty. Medea decisions were not in any way wise but if it were not for the arrows of Eros she would have had better judgment on the stranger. Medea’s behavior in this story shows that of loyalty and confusion in her heart. She is in agony because she can not conceive as to why she feels so much love for a stranger and does not wish to dishonor her father by doing so. But then she is constantly

Moreover, Euripides incorporates Medea into the relationship to convey the idea that females also possess power in an alliance, but the form of their authority is different compared to that of a male’s. Medea elucidates that even in arduous times, she assists Jason and supports their marriage. In a direct conversation with Jason, she tells him, “…after I’ve done all this to help you, you brute, you betray me…” (27). She explains that although she took care of Jason and supported him whenever he needed her help, he disabuses his power to overpower her and abandon her. Even after Jason abandons Medea, she thinks day and night of him. Medea demonstrates that the power females possess is not physical and totalitarian like the males, but rather is emotional and mental. She tries to keep the family together and in trying to do so, she does whatever Jason asks her to do. She is the important woman behind every successful man. Without her command, Jason would not be the person he is. Therefore, she can destroy Jason whenever she desires with her power. She can be a femme fatale and reduce Jason’s life to rubbles. Similarly, after Medea finds out that she is being cheated on, she quickly creates a malicious plan to obliterate Jason. She assassinates his new wife and his heirs. Although her love is “greater than

Jason states how Medea’s irrational thoughts began even before his betrayal, he recalls Medea telling him how she “killed Pelia’s in the cruelest possible way” (l. 494). Medea then states how Jason is the “worst of men” (l.494) because even though she “borne him children” (l. 496) he betrayed her to the point where she cannot even return home since she has “become/ an enemy to her own family (ll. 516-517). The nurse stood up and described Medea as a “terror” which reflects that “there’s no way to be her enemy and come out as a victor” (ll. 50-51). Even though Jason explains how he offered help earlier in the play for their children’s future, Medea is prideful and refuses to “accept anything from Jason” (640-641). Jason justifies Creon’s decision, to exile Medea, because he believed that Medea was a threat since she “spoke against the royal family” (l. 463).

Jason’s apathy is a trait that enrages Medea. Jason thinks that he is always helping Medea for nothing in return when he tells her, “I can prove you have certainly got from me more than you gave.” (p.42). Jason could never have captured the Golden Fleece if it was not for Medea’s valuable assistance and he doesn’t give her credit for it. The only thing he gave Medea was an oath of fidelity, which meant nothing to him because he breaks it after two children. Jason just decides to leave Medea for a new bride and banish Medea after all that she has done for Jason such as killing her brother and disgracing her father. Those insensitive words from Jason deeply hurt Medea, who has sacrificed so much for

Moreover, Euripides incorporates Medea into the relationship to convey the idea that females also possess a dominant role in the struggle over dominance, but their power form is different compared to males. Medea elucidates that even in the arduous times, she assisted Jason and supported their union. In a direct conversation with Jason, she tells him, “…after I’ve done all this to help you, you brute, you betray me…” (27). She explains that although she took care of Jason and supported him whenever he needed her help, he used his massive quantity of power to overpower her and abandon her. Even after Jason abandons Medea, she thinks day and night of him. Medea demonstrates that the power females possess is not physical and totalitarian like the males, but is emotional and mental. She tries to keep the family together and in trying to do so, she does whatever Jason asks her to do. She is the important woman behind every successful man. Without her command, Jason would not be the person he is. Therefore, she can destroy Jason whenever he desires with her power. She can be a femme fatale and reduce Jason’s life into rubble. Similarly, after Medea finds out she was being cheated on, she quickly creates and evil plan and destroys Jason. She murders his new

Medea was a troubled soul once Jason left her for a younger princess. When the nurse says “Rulers are fierce in their temperament; somehow, they will not be governed;”, it rings very true of Medea (Puchner 531). Someone so accustomed to getting her way will by no means let anyone, including her beloved Jason, treat her with any disrespect. She not only felt dejected by Jason, but she felt she could do nothing to change her circumstance but take out deadly vengeance against those that committed such a hiatus act towards her. With all things considered, Medea felt Jason took everything from her when he left. Jason became her everything. When she

Medea was such a different woman and people in her society were afraid of her, including men. As a result of this, before Jason, she never experienced being in love. When she finally experienced this type of love she went to no end for Jason. To protect Jason and her love for him she killed the beast guarding the Golden Fleece, she killed her brother, and she left her home, family and everything she knew for him. Most women would not have gone that far for love, especially women during her time; but Medea was not your average woman. All of the things she did for Jason. But start when Jason betray her, all the bad feeling coming.

When Jason left her, she sought revenge on him by poisoning the King and princess of Corinth. “Messenger: A king's home a charnel house –
and you rejoice?” (Euripides) Medea was pleased that she had gotten revenge by murdering the King and princess. Later on to give more grief to Jason, Medea decided to kill her own children. “Chorus: But, my lady, to kill your own two 
sons?” “Medea: It is the supreme way to hurt my husband.” (Euripides 26) In these lines Medea showed her loathing toward Jason. She believed that killing her children was the only way to destroy

His blatant misogyny is grounds for the trickery inspired and carried out by Medea. Medea very cleverly plays the part of the submissive apologetic woman to earn Jason’s trust, but then undermines his gullibility to make his be the fool. Poking at his ignorance, Medea belabors the point that women are inferior to men “I will not say evil. But you should not copy our faults; don't repay our craziness in kind” (Euripides 889). Medea antagonizes Jason’s claims against women.

<br>Medea seeks vengeance with the same forceful determination to rectify the situation as a man would. A woman seeking revenge challenges society's view of women as weak and passive. Medea will go to great lengths to hurt Jason for the wrongs he has done to her.

From the beginning of the play the conflict between good and bad where Medea and Jason are concerned has been ambiguous. Both characters have done terrible things in order to attain what they want. Nothing could stand in the way of them including Medea’s father, whom Medea betrayed and to pile on the grieve she kills her brother and drops parts of him into the sea so as to delay her father thereby ensuring that Jason and his Argonauts could fulfil their quest to attain the Golden Fleece. When Jason betrays Medea and walks away from their marriage we immediately identify him as the villain, yet the reader fails to understand that during that time when this play was written it was still socially acceptable for the man to walk away from his marriage provided he gives back the dowry he attained from the wife’s father. In this case Medea did not bring any such items so it was even easier for him to leave her so as to empower himself. It was Medea’s role as a woman belonging to that age to accept Jason’s decision however she feels betrayed that he would break a vow made in front of the gods, and apparently she was not a regular woman even by the standards of that time as she had an intellect that could rival that of scholarly men. So to exact her revenge she destroys everything Jason loves leaving him to regret ever betraying the marriage.

Following this Jason asks how she is dealing with this so well and Medea replies with, “It is true; But my pain's a fair price, to take away your smile.” (Line 1363-1363) Jason responds with an accusation of wickedness and Medea counters it with one of treachery, neither taking blame for either. There are many reasons why Medea wanted revenge and by these quotes we can clearly say that she has accomplished her mission and decimated Jason in heart and soul.

Medea forages a dress and golden crown for the princess as a thanks for allowing her son's banishment be lifted. While this seemed like a thoughtful gift she neglected to mention the secret behind it. The gifts made had been cursed. The messenger described the princesses’ and her father Creon’s horrendous deaths expecting Medea to feel distraught but was glowing with excitement and curious to know the extent of their suffering. Even though this is just once piece of evidence pointing toward her illogical mental state this act alone is enough to consider Medea temporarily insane. She then continued to do the most unjustifiable deed that in her mind would drive Jason to a deep depression. The only two people left that Jason felt a strong connection to were his sons. Medea’s dramatic last attempt for revenge was to murder her own two children in cold blood. By the time of Jason’s arrival seeking vengeance for the deaths of the princess and Creon the children had also been killed. She went on to acquire a dragon drawn chariot and placed the bodies of her two children beside